Category Archives: Writings on Spirituality and the Environment

from Marquette Monthly December, 2014 By Jon Magnuson It’s late Saturday morning. I’m making my way along with six others, breaking trail through two feet of snow. We’re weaving our way down a ridge running through a hemlock forest on … Continue reading →

Healing work being done in communities is from The Mining Journal October 12, 2014 “The danger is that religion becomes a mere ritual. It’s not sufficient to merely ring a bell, you know.” — Dalai Lama Some religious sensibility, most … Continue reading →

Arctic Drums & Dreams is from Indian Country Today June, 2013 A brief journey in the spirit world of the Innupiat By Jon Magnuson The plane trip north from Seattle is always a memorable one, skirting along edges of jagged … Continue reading →

from Marquette Monthly December, 2012 By Jon Magnuson As remote Northern Michigan cabins are boarded up for the winter, local stores open doors with discount Christmas sales and holiday lights are strung across neighborhood porches. Deep in forests across the … Continue reading →

The Good Grain is from The Christian Century September 26, 2012 By Jon Magnuson Ahead of me, stumbling down an embankment, a 16-year-old boy drags a 50-pound bag of recently harvested rice seed toward the river bank. He’s a volunteer … Continue reading →

By Shahar Madjar MD MBA A small group of nurses, doctors, and other health professional meet yearly at the beautiful lighthouse in Big Bay. They call these meetings the ‘Janus Project’. They sit around a long oval dining table and … Continue reading →

Witness: A personal account of local efforts to stop the Kennecott Eagle Project Mine is from Marquette Monthly December, 2011 Jogging down the stairs at Heathrow Airport to the underground train running to London, I carry in my overnight luggage … Continue reading →

Economics and Spirit of Place is from The Mining Journal September 19, 2011 To the Journal editor: This week the Mining Journal reported, as a lead story, Inghan County Judge Paula J. M Manderfield’s denial of a request for an … Continue reading →

from The Mining Journal April 22, 2011 To the Journal editor: Healthy religious communities, especially here in the Upper Peninsula, hold at the center of convictions a respect for individual conscience. That’s one of the reasons for the “quietism” of … Continue reading →